The Team

Mr Jeremy Lavy

MBBS (Lon) FRCS (Eng) FRCS (ORL-HNS)

Mr Lavy is a Consultant Ear Surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose & Ear Hospital. He specialises totally in ear surgery and was for many years Director of the UCL/RNTNE Cochlear Implant Programme. He has an interest in all conditions of the ear and his specialist area is stapes surgery where he has the biggest stapedectomy practice in the country.

Appointed Consultant Ear Surgeon at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in 2000 after completing training in London and Sydney, Australia.

Numbers

Between 150 and 200 stapedectomies a year are carried out under his care.

Results

Mr Lavy has the best results published in the UK and rivals the best results in the world.
Over 99% of patients will experience an improvement in their hearing. 94% of patients will get closure of their air bone gap to within 10dB of their bone conduction thresholds (average of four frequencies: 0.5, 1, 2 & 3kHz). The risk of losing the hearing completely is approximately 0.4%.

Professor Shakeel R. Saeed

MBBS, M.D., F.R.C.S (ORL)

Prof Saeed is Professor of Otology / Neuro-otology University College London, Ear Institute.
Consultant ENT and Skullbase Surgeon, Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London.

Extensive experience in lateral skullbase surgery and implantation otology – leading UK opinion in this field

Over 2000 complex ear surgeries

Over 400 cochlear implant surgeries

Over 300 vestibular schwannoma (acoustic neuroma) surgeries

Over 20 auditory Brainstem Implant surgeries

General Secretary of the European Academy of Otology and Neurotology 2017-2019
President of the Royal Society of Medicine, Section of Otology 2013-2014
President of the British Skullbase Society 2013-2015
President of the British Society of Academic Otorhinolaryngology 2011-2016
Vice-President of the British Cochlear Implant Group 2011-2015
Chairman of the BACO 2015 Academic committee
Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum (by nomination)

Medicine and Clinical Trials Group lead, UCL Ear Institute
Clinical Director of The Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital

Active in otological research and peer review.

Over 110 peer-reviewed publications

Over 250 presentations and scientific meetings nationally and internationally

Professor Saeed is currently a leading surgeon and researcher in disorders of the ear, hearing, balance, facial nerve and skullbase. He manages patients from all over the UK as well internationally. This includes adults, children or infants with: